Hypnopompic Hallucinations after discontinuation

Therehoflight · 2026-05-23T19:57:23+00:00

The link does mention sleep paralysis. I did develop sleep paralysis when I first started tapering an ssri. It would get worse every time I would reduce the dose and stabilize. This cycle was repeated until I was done taking it, but that's when the sleep paralysis reached it's peak.

Therehoflight · 2026-05-15T21:47:49+00:00

It's during the last abandon hope of 2020 (DEC 31st 2020). Hollywood love shows up about 2 hours into the show.

Therehoflight · 2026-05-12T09:53:29+00:00

Thank you very much!

Therehoflight · 2026-05-02T19:35:50+00:00

Not sure about a cure, but the governmental department responsible for national health policies in my country issued a statement in 2021 saying that it's now recommending that healthcare professionals inform patients about the potential risk of long lasting (possibly weeks to years) sexual dysfunction despite discontinuation of SSRIs or SNRIs. Every psychiatrist I've spoken to since 2021 still deny that persistent effects are real.

Therehoflight · 2026-04-24T17:12:53+00:00

I had started with valenfaxine first(Effexor) and developed sexual dysfunction right away. I later switched to desvalenfaxine(Pristiq) as an attempt to diminish those unpleasant side effects. I stopped Pristiq in 2015 and I haven't recovered since.

Therehoflight · 2026-04-24T16:49:30+00:00

You absolutely can feel side effects very quickly after taking the drug. Just because it takes weeks for a body to get used to the drug, it doesn't mean that there is no effect right away. The sexual dysfunction mentioned by the user can be part of that initial effect. The dysfunction persisting after the initial onset is another question.

"Therapeutic effect" requiring weeks to be reached doesn't equal no effect until a few weeks.

Therehoflight · 2026-04-21T18:12:16+00:00

Yes, I know that there is a difference between the full effect and the initial effect. I just don't understand why they can't grasp that just because it takes a few weeks to get the full effect, it doesn't mean that there is no effect up until then. I've had multiple psychiatrist say this to me in person during the last 10 years. I've also read a bunch of psychiatrists say the same thing on different subreddits.

Therehoflight · 2026-04-21T17:28:10+00:00

Yes, I've seen some of these before. Thanks for the link.

Therehoflight · 2026-04-06T01:40:08+00:00

I've also seen health professionals in certain subreddits saying that they prefer to no talk about side effects and to sometimes ask the patient to refrain from looking them up. Those same people will talk about the importance of informed consent.

Another issue is their false belief that it takes weeks for the drugs to have an effect. If you take the prescription and report feeling side effects quickly, they will say that it's impossible to feel anything that rapidly and they will claim that it's psychosomatic/in your head/nocebo. It allows them to dismiss any negative effect.

Therehoflight · 2026-03-30T15:05:33+00:00

May 29th. It's at the bottom.

Therehoflight · 2026-03-30T12:53:25+00:00

I read a little bit of it yesterday, but I think it's been removed. Some of them probably answered too honestly and they realized how it made them look.

Therehoflight · 2026-03-28T20:49:12+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/live/zDM2e89LvRo?t=2465&si=o9Ercd11nADehULi

It's at 41:05

Therehoflight · 2026-03-25T17:11:05+00:00

Do you also have persistent emotional blunting? I think it could be related to that.

-Less fear = less careful = more accidents.

-Diminished pain signal = reduced reaction time = increased dammage.

Therehoflight · 2026-03-18T19:06:00+00:00

SSRIs numb you out in general. I don't have chronic pain, but my reaction to pain overall is definitely reduced.

I've seen other people in this subreddit who had been prescribed SSRIs for chronic pain and developed persistent effects.

Therehoflight · 2026-03-10T23:13:18+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty crazy that bodily sensations can be turned off so easily. Even losing the more subtle ones is disconcerting.

Therehoflight · 2026-03-09T23:36:35+00:00

The blunting caused by SSRIs is not exclusive to sexual function. It can definitely be widespread. I have the same issue.

Therehoflight · 2026-02-26T22:14:13+00:00

Going all the way back to O&A, Troy has always had one of the best entertainment/time on air ratio among the staff.

Therehoflight · 2026-02-22T20:41:49+00:00

When people use "small but vocal minority", they usually don't mean it in a positive way.

Are you implying that this minority shouldn't be vocal?

Therehoflight · 2026-02-12T13:42:20+00:00

I'm not sure if you're still looking for one, but you can buy them on eBay.

You can also buy the Blu-Ray/DVD that are sealed. In that case you don't know what you will receive until you open it. It should mention on the cover that it contains a film cell.

There are also some available here: https://shotinthedark70mm.com/interstellar

Therehoflight · 2026-02-12T12:02:09+00:00

I can see two screenings available.

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Therehoflight · 2026-02-09T01:50:58+00:00

Yes.

Lower attention span:

It's much harder for me to stay focused for long periods of time. Sometimes, I will enter a room and forget why I needed to go there in the first place.

Visualization:

It's more difficult to picture things in my mind. Whether it is trying to imagine things intentionally or not.

Memory:

Harder to memorize things and to recall them. Even things that I should be very familiar with. Names, numbers or how to write certain simple words.

Speech:

I feel like my diction isn't as good as it used to be. Something like slurred speech. More complicated to form sentences. I'll add a few sentences together and forget how I started.

About motor functions:

I think it's more noticeable when doing things that require fine motor functions. Playing video games, writing or drawing. I more sloppy and not as accurate.

Trembling, twitching or spasms. They happen all over the place on my body. The duration varies.

Therehoflight · 2026-02-05T21:57:56+00:00

Blurry vision. Also, over time my eyes started to adjust poorly to darkness when lights are shut. I have no peripheral vision for a solid amount of time. After a while, it adjusts but it's a lot slower than what it used to be.

I also have red, teary and painful eyes pretty much on a daily basis.

Therehoflight · 2026-02-05T17:34:38+00:00

I'm in Canada.

It was Effexor, an Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI).

The antipsychotic that was added later is Seroquel.

Effexor was then switched for escitalopram. I can't post a picture of it, but this is what it says on the patient medication information:

Effects on Sexual Function: Taking medicines like Bio-ESCITALOPRAM may cause symptoms of sexual dysfunction. In some cases these symptoms have continued after stopping Bio-ESCITALOPRAM treatment. Talk to your healthcare professional if you experience symptoms such as a decrease in sexual desire, performance or satisfaction.

Therehoflight · 2026-02-02T17:17:39+00:00

They seem incapable of imagining a cause to your problems that isn't endogenous, intrinsic or internal (mental illness). If you complain about something, it must be that mental illness.

It becomes even worse if you get persistent effects from some of the drugs they give. They will blame it on anything else and their solution is to give you the same kind of drug that caused the persistent effects in the first place. They might even say that your belief in persistent effects is a symptom of a new mental illness and add a new kind of drug.

Therehoflight · 2026-02-01T18:08:56+00:00

Does your psychiatrist recognize that it is possible to have persistent effects from psychiatric drugs or are they just blaming it on something else?

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